I use securi for the public facing side:
http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:15 PM, David White <dwrudy at gmail.com> wrote:
> To fork the thread, anyone know of any services you can use, and/or or
> scripts you can run to check the public facing code of sites and
> ensure there's nothing malicious?
>> On the internal side of things, I wonder if it would just make sense
> to periodically run an MD5 checksum via cron on each web directory in
> the server(s) and compare that with the good hash (stored externally,
> off the server, of course).
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> On Oct 17, 2012, at 10:08 PM, Mike Harrison <cluon at geeklabs.com> wrote:
>> >
> > The little Linode slice that hosts chugalug.org
> > and a handful of other sites had a Joomla install brute forced.
> > Actually nailed on October 10th, but they did not
> > install and abuse things until yesterday.
> >
> > The apache logs show many many thousands of login/password attempts
> > on the two joomla sites on this system... from only two IP's. in rapid
> succession. and they finally got one. Then they uploaded a new theme, with
> some extra functionality in the files.
> >
> > Note: Both IP's were from static ip leasing services. That's a new twist
> to me... usually they are from another hacked server.
> >
> > And then they went "Bank of America Customer Fishing"
> > This server was only a relay, it's some interesting code.
> >
> > As many of you are also hosting/using Joomla and other content
> management systems, you might want to look at your logs. Moving your
> login/admin
> > urls is the first step, there are many more worth taking.
> >
> > I'm out of the internet / web hosting / security business and yet, since
> the beginning of September, I've been involved in 6 comprimises, 2 of
> which, like this one, I was partially responsible for some part of the
> system.
> > The others I was just called in to help clean up afterwards.
> >
> > My relevant almost on topic point is: It seems to me the intensity,
> focus and volume of hacks, comprimises and abuses have seeming increased
> significantly.
> >
> > Be careful out there. I'm putting my uber-paranoid hat on after
> > about 10 years of not wearing it (all the time), you should also.
> >
> > The not so nice people are out to get us all. All of us.
> >
> >
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